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Skeat’s translation of Rowley, whatever it did for the intelligibility of Chatterton’s work, alerted readers to the musicality of his construction. However outlandish some of his coinages might seem, the sheer fluidity and versatility of his poetry induced a fresh awareness of the possibilities open to the poet.
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- Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
It has long been agreed that Chatterton was solely responsible for the Rowley poems; the language and style were analysed in confirmation of this view by W. W. Skeat in an introductory essay prefaced to vol. ii. of The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton (1871) in the "Aldine Edition of the British Poets."
Chatterton had been a footnote to Rowley and Canynge, a local attraction in Bristol, and, above all, a function of what became known as the Rowley Controversy.1
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The first of his literary mysteries, the dialogue of "Elinoure and Juga," was written before he was twelve, and he showed it to the usher at Colston's hospital, Thomas Phillips. Three of Chatterton's companions are named as youths whom Phillips' taste for poetry stimulated to rivalry. Chatterton told no one about his own more daring literary advent...
He had just dispatched one of his political diatribes to the Middlesex Journal, when he sat down on Easter Eve, April 17, 1770, and penned his "Last Will and Testament," a strange satirical compound of jest and earnest, in which he intimated his intention of ending his life the following evening. Among his satirical bequests to the school personnel...
The death of Chatterton attracted little notice at the time; for the few who then entertained any appreciative estimate of the Rowley poems regarded him as their mere transcriber. He was interred in a burying-ground attached to Shoe Lane Workhouse, in the parish of St Andrew's, Holborn, which has since been converted into a site for Farringdon Mark...
Chatterton's genius and his tragic death are commemorated by Shelley in Adonais (though its main emphasis is the commemoration of Keats), by Wordsworth in "Resolution and Independence," by Coleridge in "A Monody on the Death of Chatterton," by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in "Five English Poets," by Henry Wallis in his painting "The Death of Chatterton,"...
Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. New York: Grove Press, 1988. ISBN 9780802100412Chatterton, Thomas, Walter W. Skeat, and Edward Bell. The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton. New York: AMS Press, 1968. OCLC 2616390Groom, Nick. Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture. London: Macmillan, 1999. OCLC 41880324Meyerstein, Edward Harry William. A Life of Thomas Chatterton. New York: Russell & Russell, 1972. OCLC 333467Wordsworth’s reference to him as “the marvellous Boy” represents the esteem in which he was held, and Keats especially appears inspired both personally and poetically by the youth, for his ...
It has long been agreed that Chatterton was solely responsible for the Rowley poems; the language and style were analysed in confirmation of this view by W. W. Skeat in an introductory essay prefaced to vol. ii. of The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton (1871) in the “Aldine Edition of the British Poets.”
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The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton : with an essay on the Rowley poems by Walter W. Skeat, and a memoir by Edward Bell / Author : Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770
